Stabilized but that doesnt tell you what is happening beneath the surface. The 10year yielding 0. 8 . Updates on the outbreak in america. We are now more than 4,600 confirmed cases. At least 85 deaths last night, President Trump vowing to backstop u. S. Industries saying the u. S. Will be power fully supporting those Industries Like airlines and others impacted by the virus weigh will be stronger than ever before the eight largest u. S. Banks announcing they will be jointly accessing funding from the Federal Reserve. There has long been a stigma and they are all doing it together Morgan Stanley being the first bank to do it. We should not take anything away from that decision the ceo also happens to be the chairman of the committee that put this group together that went to do this. Joe. Investors are looking for a substantial fiscal response from washington to try to stem the he can economic damage. Reporter we do expect congress to move today not sure when the senate will take action,
Maria and our top story this hour 2020 democrats facing off on debate stage in charleston, candidates taking aim at frontrubber South Carolina days before South Carolina prime aye and less than a week before super tuesday, Hillary Vaughn with all the highlights, hillary. Good morning, maria, democrats on stage did not pull any punches, mayor Michael Bloomberg fended off attacks over billionaire status as painting status as unelectable and warren as mayor Pete Buttigieg drilled sanders over the math behind medicare for all. Elect bernie, bernie will lose to donald trump and donald trump and the house and the senate and some of the state houses will all go red. Mayor bloomberg has strong and enthusiastic base of support, the problem is they are all billionaires. Everybody in this room imagine moderate republicans going over and voting for him and you have to do that if you cant win. Aggressive agenda is popular, mayor bloomberg, he cannot eastern the trust of the core of the Democratic P
And bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange hey, robert. Hello there, old friend narrow trading range were down second day in a row, but a small trading range. 16 points in the s p 500, maybe 200 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average the nasdaq, though, is eking out small gains. The dow gainers for the month, theyre still the gainers for the day. Look at apple, look at nike, look at sisco, all up on the month. The laggards, its interesting, the ones that are down in the month of december also down today. Boeing had a tough month even disney. They topped out the beginning of december, 153 now, 143. Visa ending down today a little bit here that was a big mover all throughout the end of december the one sector i would point out to you is the Energy Sector. Oil exploration product up again today. And you know all of those really beaten up small Exploration Production companies, witing, southwestern, all terrible year, terrible three or four years since the tax law selling seemed to
Political relief rally banks are in focus this morning. This is bank of america calls citigroup its pick of the decade. The ceo of ulta will join us at post 9 this hour. Well begin with stocks on track to open at record highs. Also adding to positive sentiment, china confirming the vice premier will head to washington next week for the signing of that phase one trade agreement with the United States jim, its going to be busy next week between that and the kickoff of corporate earnings. It sure seems like everybody believes everything is going to be good. A sheer mention of the banks is really underestimated. There are so many people saying buy these. Why does that matter thats who kicks off earnings season already the expectations are pretty high. They better deliver after this run. And thats what these upgrades are mostly all about. I mean specifically on the banks. Goldman getting not one upgrade but two today out of buckingham and b of a, as b of a or it goes from 270 to 245 what ne
Nt took into difficult territory. Can you give me a History Lesson on Travis Kalanick and what he delivered . Mandeep clearly he was a trailblazer and created this market ridesharing. He was probably too aggressive. Was on the cultural side. He did not care much about the reputation of the company that much. In hindsight, that was his mistake. Even though he was focused on expansion, there were certain reputational things that probably hurt him a lot. Even after the lock up, travis was probably the most in terms of selling the stock. Company hadall the a hard time keeping him on the board and involved in the day today aspects of the company and on the other hand he was telling the stocks so aggressively. Hopefully that is what this management hopes for is to change the shareholder base. Right now when you look at the shareholder base, they have softbank as the largest shareholder followed by benchmark. Chmark typically exists they are not there for the long term. For a large tech compa